God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Intuition comes from within. It's what you know when you're quiet and still.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?